Quotes About Overcoming

Many a soul will turn back to accustomed marshlands of defeat rather than brave the fogs of frustration; but the mountain peaks rise high above the rain and gloom.

I'm a food addict, that's my downfall.

Breaking down does not have to mean reaching a catastrophe.

We need to pick ourselves up out of the relapse, give ourselves a gentle, firm, kind talking to, and move on. Beating ourselves up and dwelling on the past keeps us stuck and overfocused on ourselves.

although he was built like an aging prizefighter, the ring had definitely won the last round.

When you look back over your life, what are the three greatest ways God brought you through a challenge or set you up for victory?

And I'm asking, what are you going to do about it? Are you going to fall apart or be the woman God created you to be?

to get everything back that the devil took from you.

Success is the sweetest revenge.

There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self... Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance.

A great ancient poet was blind. A great classical composer was deaf. Many of us are dumb. What have we to show for it?

I rise back up to the surface with a kind of solemn quiet peace that comes when you know it's all over.

tus mejores maestros son tus enemigos.

Whenever we resist something—perhaps an unkind remark, a shocking event, or a depressing feeling—our very resistance indicates a belief in the power of that event to hurt us. Although it is really powerless, our mistaken belief in it induces despair. But by not resisting, we dissolve the false belief and consequently the false power for harm.

Weaknes my simply be a flash of doubt in the mind. One moment of doubt can be enough to be defeated

When problems go beyond hope of solution, insanity comes creeping.

Serious difficulties don't vanish by themselves, they are standing around your bed when you open your eyes the next morning.

Just because someone tried to make you into a victim didn't mean that's what you had to be.

That's what hiding away did, whether it was from the world or yourself, your past, or even your dreams. It took absolutely no effort to have a miserable life. But building a glorious one? A life worth living and sharing with others? That's what was hard." Joanna

If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.

I appreciate everything that has been done for me. After a difficult start, I've just followed my dreams.

Defeats are merely repeats with better information.

Beauty saves. Beauty heals. Beauty motivates. Beauty unites. Beauty returns us to our origins, and here lies the ultimate act of saving, of healing, of overcoming dualism.

The act of facing overwhelming odds produces greatness and beauty.